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Search basic, advanced in medical databases Why Search? Searching Skills are necessity for all clinicians who want to stay up to up to date with best practice Physicians need to know where and how to find the best evidence 1999


  1. Applying subheadings and other features using the MeSH Database

  2. Clinical Queries

  3. Search Engines  EBM search engine – TRIP  Medical search engines  SUMSearch -alpers  General search engines  Google

  4. TRIP Database  The TRIP Database is produced by TRIP Database Ltd. (Turning Research Into Practice)  The aims of the TRIP Database :allowing health professionals to easily find the highest-quality material available on the web.  The content of the site is reviewed monthly and new material from the publications covered is added to the site.  Typically 300-400 new articles are added monthly.

  5. TRIP Contents  Evidence-based. Sites included in this section invariably have an explicit process of secondary review of primary papers. Content includes systematic reviews, CATs, and journal clubs.  Guidelines. The TRIP Database has the world's largest collection of clinical guidelines.  Query-answering. Query-answering services essentially allow users to ask a clinical question and then specialists answer the question. This is a very specialized area and generates clinical answers to real clinical questions making the answers highly relevant to clinical care.

  6. TRIP Contents- continued ..  Medical Images. With over 80,000 medical images  eTextbooks. eTextbooks tend not to be as up to date as other sources (although sources such as eMedicine.com are frequently updated) but they can be very good for giving a broad understanding of an area.  Patient Information Leaflets. Brings together a number of patient information sources from around the world.  Peer-reviewed journals. Using a special interface the TRIP Database automatically searches PubMed using validated search filters to return highly-focused result s.

  7.  TRIP (www.tripdatabase.com)

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